Pope Francis apologizes to Canadian Indigenous delegates for ‘deplorable’ abuses at residential schools
Indigenous delegates reflect on Pope Francis’s apology for the conduct of some members of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada’s
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Ottawa under pressure to collect records from Rome on Indigenous residential schools
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The federal government is under pressure to demand Catholic church entities hand over relevant
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Dene national chief says Canada’s Northwest Territories should create own school curriculum
‘It’s time that we step up and take ownership of our education,’ says Norman Yakeleya Alberta’s decision to renew its
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COVID-19 delays delivery of apology to Inuit residential school survivors in Atlantic Canada
The long-planned provincial apology to Inuit residential school survivors in Atlantic Canada has been called off due to continued delays
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Canada’s Northwest Territories: Former Métis leader says day school settlement forms ‘misleading’
A former N.W.T. Métis Council president alleges that day school settlement forms are “misleading” survivors away from the rightful money they deserve.
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Indigenous children who died in residential school commemorated in Quebec
A moving and sombre ceremony held Monday at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., near Ottawa, included the
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National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation archives added to UNESCO world register
The collection of archives, personal stories and photos of residential school survivors at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
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Non-fiction book about inuk residential school survivor from Atlantic Canada attracts readers in Poland
Poland is half a world away from the legacy of residential schools, but to the author of a new book
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Survey in northern city asks parents: should O Canada be sung in schools?
The public school authority in Iqaluit, Nunavut is looking into whether O Canada should be sung at its four schools.
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First Nation in northwestern Canada ponders what to do with residential school site
It was a school reunion — but not the celebratory kind. Students who attended Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross,
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10 years sober: Indigenous woman in northern Quebec shares impacts of alcohol in video
Some of Carol-Ann Tanoush’s earliest memories of growing up in northern Quebec revolve around alcohol. “[It was] loud music, screaming
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Notable book recommendations from across northern Canada
The First Nations Book Fair (Kwahiatonhk: Salon du livre des Premières Nations) gets underway in the Canadian province of Quebec November
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Student in Arctic Canada sits during national anthem to ‘make a statement’ about residential school curriculum
A 12-year-old student in Iqaluit, in Canada’s east-Arctic, says he ended up in the principal’s office after he sat during
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PHOTO REPORT: Tundra children return from school
Nenets children staying at boarding schools in Naryan-Mar throughout the semester, got a helicopter transport back this week to their
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Sami abused in Sweden’s church-run schools
A newly published collection of stories from the Sami community examines the often painful history of the lives of young Sami
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